The Count of Monte Cristo (Unabridged Penguin) (213 page)

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Harpagon
: The central character in Molière’s play
L’Avare
.

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Calypso… Telemachus
: In Fénélon’s novel
Télémaque
, Calypso welcomes the hero to her island and seems in effect to be telling him to slip into something more comfortable.

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In English.

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If at six in the morning the four thousand
piastres
are not in my hands, by seven o’clock Vicomte Albert de Morcerf will have ceased to exist.